Morocco emerges as biggest EU wheat importer

Morocco has imported more soft wheat from the EU following a drought that compromised the country’s harvest last year. The North African country is planning an additional purchase of 1.5 million tons in the March-May period, Reuters reported. Revived black sea competition have helped push down prices although these remain still higher compared to the […]

Mali: ECOWAS summit lifts trade & financial sanctions

Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in a summit in Accra on Sunday lifted the trade and financial sanctions imposed on Mali since January. “The summit decided to lift all economic and financial sanctions from today” but maintains individual sanctions and the suspension of Mali from ECOWAS bodies until the […]

International Stakeholders rally behind UN Roadmap to stabilise Libya

The Governments of the United States, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom jointly expressed on November 27 their full support for the United Nations’ roadmap aimed at achieving unity, stability, and lasting peace in Libya. The statement welcomed the UN Security Council’s extension of the […]